Current Highlights
2019 Visiting Professor
The Sussex Asia Centre is delighted to welcome this year's Visiting Professor: Hitoshi Yonekura. Professor Yonekura is the Presidentially Designated Extraordinary Professor at Tohoku University, Japan.
Sussex Asia Centre - AISS Collaborations
The Asia Centre's ongoing collaboration with the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies continues with a series of joint events in the UK and Afghanistan.
Trust, Global Traders and Commodities in a Chinese International City
Professor Magnus Marsden leads this multi-sited and interdisciplinary research project centred on the Chinese city of Yiwu, engaging researchers and theoretical approaches in anthropology, area studies, business studies, and history and drawing on expertise from law, commercial shipping, and international trade policy.
Inter-Asian Dynamics Research Network
Professor Magnus Marsden leads a new network exploring the nature of connections, comparisons and circulations across multiple Asian settings.
Narrating Blood
Professor Maya Unnithan, director of the Centre for Cultures, Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH), is building an international network for cross-cultural research and intervention into blood-related reproductive and adolescent health and care-economies in India, Bangladesh, Ghana and the UK.
Environmental History of South Asia
Professor Vinita Damodaran uses historical records to understand climate change in the Indian Ocean World.
Woman's Leadership in the Asian Century
Professor Louise Morley, Director of the Centre of Higher Education and Equity Research, explores women and academic leadership in Asia.
Recent Events
- Asia Centre News
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The Sussex Asia Centre welcomes Hitoshi Yonekura
Professor Yonekura is the Asia Centre's visiting professor for 2019
Tracking wind and waves with fishers and forecasters
Our work in Thiruvananthapuram in south India supported by the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme aims at better risk communication for local...
Sussex exchange partnership wins Chinese national scholarship award
A student exchange partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen has been recognised as outstanding by China’s Ministry of Education.
The Sussex Asia Centre welcomes Professor Haiyun Zhang
The Sussex Asia Centre is delighted to welcome Professor Haiyun Zhang from Qinghai Nationalities University in China as our Visiting Professor....
Three new International Research Partnerships and Network Fund awards made
Sussex Research and the International Office have made three awards under the International Research Partnerships and Network Fund.
Record numbers of Sussex students take part in summer schools at top global partners
Over 125 undergraduates will head out to leading international partners over the coming weeks, all supported by around £65,000 in bursaries.
New international media programme first of its kind in the UK and Hong Kong
A delegation from the University were hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to launch a joint International Programme on Global Communication.
Critical minds needed more than ever to navigate global media landscape, say Sussex and CUHK
In the face of an increasing challenging global media landscape, we need media literate-graduates more than ever to understand the world we live in.
Chinese University of Hong Kong opens its doors to Sussex researchers
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is now inviting applications from Sussex faculty members for the Inbound Research Mobility Scheme.
Fourth round of the International Research Partnerships and Networks Fund launched
A fourth round of the International Research Partnerships and Networks Fund has been launched by Sussex Research and the International Office today.
Opportunities for Sussex PhD students to visit Hong Kong for research collaborations
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is inviting applications from doctoral researchers at Sussex for its Global Scholarship Programme.
Sussex launches Global Excellence Summer Programme for 2017
The University has teamed up with world-leading institutional partners to provide summer study opportunities for Sussex students.
Dr Diana Ibanez-Tirado was awarded the Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize
Dr Diana Ibañez-Tirado, Associate Researcher at the Department of Anthropology and the Sussex Asia Centre, was awarded the Irene Hilgers...
China’s e-commerce department visits Sussex
Recent visit paid by the China International Electronic Commerce Centre (CIECC) to foster collaboration with the University of Sussex.
New play commemorating partition of India based on harrowing real-life stories
A play written by a University of Sussex academic who researches the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 is to premier in Crawley next week.
- Upcoming Events
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De-exceptionalising the Domestic: methodological de-nationalism and domestic labour
Joint Event with the Ethnicity, Race and Diverse Societies Research Network Abstract The doing of domestic work reflects, reproduces and entrenches...
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T: +44 (0)1273 606755 ext2312
E: M.Marsden@sussex.ac.ukUniversity of Sussex Asia Centre
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